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00:02Revnard Castillo had an obsession that bordered on sickness.
00:06Every woman he kept by his side had to be pure.
00:09So for five years, he sent 99 mysteries to my underground clinic
00:13and ordered me to perform high men reconstruction on them.
00:16Today marks the 100th person.
00:19So you're Soraya Visanti?
00:22My voice stayed calm.
00:24Give me the chart.
00:25Her eyes moved over my white coat, then stopped on the empty ring finger beneath my glove.
00:30I heard you and Revnard have been married for five years.
00:34And he still hasn't touched you once.
00:38We've only known each other ten days.
00:41And he can barely keep his hands off me.
00:44The clinic fell silent for half a second.
00:47This wasn't an ordinary hospital.
00:49This was the Castillo family's underground clinic beneath New York's South Harbor.
00:57Above us were a casino and a cigar lounge.
01:03Anyone who entered this place was either a maid member
01:06or someone the family had chosen to let live.
01:09And I was Revnard's wife in name only,
01:11and the private gyneologist he found most convenient.
01:15Mrs. Castillo, the room is ready.
01:20He likes it when I cry, like it's my first time.
01:23But last night, I got too eager and ruined his fun.
01:30You can fix that, right?
01:36I almost feel sorry for you.
01:38You're supposed to be the Don's wife, but you've never even been his bed.
01:41You have no idea what Renmard is like there.
01:49Allergies?
01:50None.
01:51Bleeding history?
01:52Ask Remed.
01:53He knows better than I do.
01:58The first time at At Renmard brought a woman here,
02:02I stormed into his screwed, smashed his liquor cabinet,
02:04and asked why he had to humiliate me like this.
02:11Saraya, be good.
02:13The Viserandi family has fallen.
02:15Your father's debts are being carried by the Castillos.
02:18Do you dare divorce me?
02:20All you have to do is be my wife, quietly.
02:23When I'm done playing, I'll come home.
02:27After that, I stopped making scenes.
02:29I stitched up his women.
02:31I restored the illusion they sold to him.
02:33Stitch by stitch, I also sewed shut whatever love I had left for him.
02:42Don.
02:43He didn't look at me.
02:44Scared?
02:45How could I be scared when Mrs. Castillo is here?
02:48She's so generous.
02:50She even takes care of her husband's women.
02:53Make it look good.
02:55Same fee?
02:59Payment.
03:00His fingers brushed the fabric over my chest.
03:02My heart didn't beat faster.
03:04This time, I didn't cry.
03:06Because he had forgotten.
03:07On our wedding night five years ago,
03:09he was the one who made me sign the contract.
03:12A five-year marriage.
03:14It expired today.
03:15I have decided to divorce Renard.
03:18By the time the surgery was over,
03:20Ivita still hadn't woken up.
03:22I peeled off my blood-stained gloves,
03:24sealed the medical record in a file,
03:26and called a number I had in.
03:28T-dialed in a long time.
03:32Soroya.
03:35Grandfather, I received the flight fee-tails.
03:38If you're willing to come home,
03:40the Visanti family still has a spring.
03:43I'm leaving tonight.
03:47Who were you talking to?
03:52A telemarketer.
03:53He didn't press.
03:54In five years of marriage,
03:55he never cared who I spoke to,
03:57where I went,
03:57or when I came back.
03:58He only remembered me when he needed me.
04:00When he needed surgery for one of his women.
04:03When he needed me at a family banquet.
04:05When he needed the dignity of Mrs. Castillo
04:07in front of outsiders.
04:10What do you think of this bracelet?
04:12It was the same style I had looked at
04:14a little too long in a magazine last month.
04:16For one shameful second,
04:18my heart skipped.
04:19Ivita should like it.
04:20That tiny tremor died right then.
04:22It's beautiful.
04:23She like it.
04:24Maybe I was too calm,
04:25because Renard looked at me for an extra beat.
04:28I'll drive you back to the estate.
04:29She won't wake from the anesthesia
04:31for another half hour.
04:32In five years of marriage,
04:34aside from the wedding car,
04:36I had never ridden in Renard's car.
04:39Renard pressed his hand over mine.
04:41Sit in the back.
04:42His tone was as natural
04:43as if he were talking about the weather.
04:45Ivita is sensitive.
04:46If she knows someone else sat in her seat,
04:48she'll throw a fit.
04:49I looked at that passenger seat.
04:51A pink blanket was folded over it.
04:53The sweet smell of perfume was almost cloying.
04:56A half-finished strawberry milkshake
04:58sat in the cup holder.
04:59The playlist on the screen
05:00was full of lighthearted love songs.
05:02I used to like pink too.
05:04On our wedding night,
05:05I wore a pink nightdress
05:06and sat on the edge of the bed
05:08waiting for him.
05:13Soraya, I don't like pink.
05:14You're not my type either.
05:16Not touching you is me being responsible.
05:18That night,
05:19he handed me the marriage contract.
05:21A five-year alliance.
05:23Mutual benefit.
05:24After five years,
05:25automatic disillusion.
05:27My hand shook so badly
05:28when I signed
05:28that I almost couldn't hold the pen.
05:30Because when I was 12,
05:32I saw him for the first time.
05:33He stood at a Castillo charity banquet
05:35playing cello.
05:36Black hair,
05:37dark eyes,
05:38a young king who seemed
05:39to have walked out of hell.
05:41My father was scolding me
05:42for playing the wrong piece.
05:45If you don't like it,
05:46don't play.
05:46That one sentence
05:47made me love him in secret
05:48for 10 years.
05:49By the time the car reached the estate,
05:51snow had started falling.
05:53Renard didn't get out
05:54to open my door.
05:57You're awake.
05:58Don't cry.
05:59I'm coming back now.
06:00It's our 10-day anniversary tonight.
06:02The fireworks are already arranged.
06:0410-day anniversary.
06:06Today was our fifth wedding anniversary.
06:08Snowflakes fell on my shoulders.
06:10I'm leaving you.
06:12And I'll never see you again.
06:14I thought Renard
06:15wouldn't be back tonight.
06:16But I was woken up
06:17in the middle of the night
06:18by noises from the kitchen.
06:23He stared at a cooking tutorial
06:24on a tablet,
06:25frowning as if he were studying
06:26the weapons ledger
06:27of a rival family.
06:30Five years ago,
06:31I had a fever of 102.
06:33I crawled to the door of his study
06:34and begged him
06:35to pour me a glass of water.
06:37Renard water, please.
06:40I don't like the smell
06:41of oil in the kitchen.
06:43Wait, I'll call a servant.
06:45But that night,
06:45the Castillo family
06:46called an emergency meeting.
06:48He forgot.
06:49When the servants found me
06:50the next morning,
06:51I was unconscious
06:52from the fever
06:53and almost didn't wake up.
06:54And now, for Ivita,
06:56he was cooking
06:56with his own hands.
07:02Surya.
07:05I don't know how.
07:07Teach me.
07:09Renard wasn't incapable
07:10of patience.
07:11He had simply never
07:12given any of it to me.
07:13What do you want to eat?
07:16Nothing.
07:17Ivita wants chicken soup.
07:19I promised
07:20I'd make it myself.
07:21I should have turned
07:22and left.
07:23I went into the kitchen.
07:29Under the kitchen lights,
07:31for one brief moment,
07:32I could almost pretend
07:33we had once been
07:34an ordinary married couple.
07:40Thank God for you.
07:43She's probably waiting.
07:45You are done.
07:45You have to be strong.
07:48At three in the morning,
07:50Ivita posted an update.
07:52My sweet don't
07:53made me soup himself.
07:55Renard almost never
07:56commented on public
07:57social media.
07:58This time,
07:59he replied with a kiss emoji.
08:00I stared at the screen,
08:02my finger hovering
08:03over the like button,
08:04then backed out.
08:06Next time,
08:06can we do it
08:07in your marriage bed?
08:08It was deleted
08:09almost immediately.
08:10Oh my God,
08:11Mrs. Castillo,
08:12I sent that to the wrong person.
08:14It was meant for Renard.
08:15You didn't see it,
08:16did you?
08:16I didn't reply.
08:18Your profile pictures
08:18look so similar,
08:19like couple avatars.
08:21I'll ask him to change his,
08:22just so I don't make
08:23the same mistake again.
08:24I looked at
08:25Renard's profile photo.
08:27It was a side profile
08:28taken by his late mother.
08:30I had once begged him
08:31to use couple avatars with me.
08:32He called it childish.
08:34So I secretly found
08:35a similar one
08:36and treated it
08:36as a matching avatar
08:37only I knew about.
08:39Five minutes later,
08:40he changed his
08:41to a cartoon avatar
08:42that matched Evita's.
08:44I refreshed the screen
08:45again and again
08:46until my eyes hurt.
08:55Five years ago,
08:56I had our wedding date
08:57tattooed onto my skin.
08:58When Renard saw it,
08:59he only laughed.
09:01Get it removed.
09:03It's ugly.
09:04I didn't remove it that day.
09:06Now I finally understood.
09:07The ugly thing
09:08wasn't the tattoo.
09:09It was this marriage
09:10I had imagined
09:11all by myself.
09:12I turned off my phone
09:13and reopened
09:14the plane ticket
09:15my grandfather had sent me.
09:16Midnight had passed
09:17and I was fully aware
09:19that the contract
09:19I signed with Renard
09:20five years ago
09:21had expired.
09:22From this moment forward,
09:24I am no longer
09:24Renard's Donna.
09:25I am simply myself.
09:27Before dawn,
09:29the director of the
09:30underground clinic
09:30called me.
09:32Soraya,
09:33did you perform
09:34Evita's reconstruction?
09:36Yes.
09:38Something happened.
09:39She's hemorrhaging
09:40and she says,
09:41she says you did it
09:42on purpose.
09:49It hurts, Renard.
09:52Don't let her touch me!
09:54She's jealous!
09:55She's jealous
09:56that you'd rather
09:57touch me than her!
09:58So,
09:59she ruined me
10:00on purpose!
10:03Soraya,
10:04apologize.
10:08If it was my fault,
10:09I need to examine her first.
10:12No!
10:13She'll hurt me again!
10:16Renard,
10:17does this mean
10:18I can't be with you anymore?
10:21Does it mean
10:21I can't give you children?
10:23That sentence
10:23struck exactly
10:24where Renard
10:25was weakest.
10:26The Castillo family
10:27needed an heir.
10:28And I,
10:29his wife,
10:30had given him
10:30no children
10:31in five years.
10:32Let Simon examine her.
10:34He was another doctor
10:36in the underground clinic.
10:37He had once
10:38treated a member
10:38of a rival family
10:39without permission.
10:40And I exposed him
10:41in front of everyone.
10:42Since then,
10:43there was poison
10:44in the way
10:44he looked at me.
10:45Of course, Don.
10:47I'll be impartial.
10:48I instinctively
10:49sensed danger.
10:54Found this
10:56inside the wound.
10:58Mrs. Castillo,
10:59this is a basic mistake.
11:01You shouldn't
11:02have made it.
11:03Impossible.
11:04Maybe it wasn't
11:05a mistake.
11:06Maybe
11:07it was revenge.
11:09Aveda's sobs
11:10grew louder
11:10at exactly
11:11the right time.
11:12Renard,
11:12I'm scared.
11:14I thought
11:15Mrs. Castillo
11:16was generous,
11:17but she hates me.
11:20Starting today,
11:22Soraya is no longer
11:23the chief surgeon
11:23of the underground clinic.
11:26Renard,
11:27you won't even investigate?
11:30I gave you dignity.
11:32You were the one
11:32who refused to behave.
11:34The news spread
11:35through the Castillo family
11:36within hours.
11:37The Don's wife
11:38got jealous
11:38of his new favorite
11:39and caused a medical
11:40accident on purpose.
11:41When I walked out
11:42of the clinic,
11:43several women I had treated
11:44before blocked my way.
11:46Quack!
11:47Jealous bitch!
11:49Monster!
11:51No wonder my boyfriend
11:53said I didn't feel
11:53like it was my first time!
11:55Your technique
11:55was garbage!
11:58I stood there,
11:59drenched and bleeding,
12:00watching my five years
12:01of work being trampled
12:02into filth.
12:04Renard walked past
12:05the entrance
12:06with Ivita in his arms.
12:09That's scary.
12:12Don't look.
12:13It's dirty.
12:14Dirty.
12:15The word landed
12:16on my skin harder
12:17than the slap.
12:17I was the doctor
12:18who had kept
12:19his underground clinic
12:20running for five years.
12:21I was the woman
12:22who had stitched
12:23his soldiers,
12:24his mistresses,
12:25and even his enemies
12:26when he needed them alive.
12:27But now,
12:28in his eyes,
12:29I was dirty.
12:32Bring her in.
12:40Good girl.
12:41I called it for you.
12:43I suddenly wanted to laugh.
12:45So he did know
12:45how to take care of someone.
12:47He just never wanted
12:48to take care of me.
12:52She's here.
12:54Is she going
12:55to hurt me again?
12:56Renard patted her back.
12:58Don't be afraid.
12:59I brought her here
13:00for you to take it out on.
13:03Really?
13:04I can do anything I want?
13:06Yes.
13:07She looked at me,
13:08her voice soft as honey.
13:10Then I want her
13:11to feel what I felt.
13:12Prepare the interrogation room.
13:14My head snapped up.
13:16Revnod,
13:16I am your wife.
13:17His eyes did not move.
13:19If you break the rules,
13:20you pay.
13:21That is family law.
13:24The interrogation room
13:25was on the second
13:26underground level.
13:27This was where
13:28they handled traitors
13:29and people
13:30who refused to obey.
13:31I was forced
13:32into a chair.
13:33Leather straps
13:34locked my wrists in place.
13:37Relax,
13:38Mrs. Castillo.
13:39It's only an examination.
13:49Simon's expression
13:50changed quickly.
13:52Don't.
13:53Your wife is.
13:54Still a virgin.
13:56Behind the glass,
13:57Renard's body
13:58visibly stiffened.
13:59Five years.
14:00He had personally
14:01left me untouched
14:02until I became
14:03the Castillo family's
14:04greatest joke.
14:05Now he finally remembered
14:06I had never belonged
14:07to anyone.
14:10Renard,
14:12don't do this to me.
14:14He seemed about to speak.
14:16But the next second,
14:19I'm bleeding again.
14:21Renard,
14:22am I gonna die?
14:24She hurt me.
14:26She did this on purpose.
14:28Renard's gaze
14:29turned ruthless
14:30in an instant.
14:31He looked at Simon.
14:32Continue.
14:33Make her remember
14:34that Castillo law
14:35is not decoration.
14:37Matteo walked
14:37into the interrogation room.
14:39He was a low-level soldier
14:40at Renard's side.
14:42Normally,
14:42he didn't even have
14:43the right to look me
14:44in the eye.
14:44Now his gaze
14:45was sticky with excitement.
14:48The Don only wants
14:50her scared.
14:55Miss Evita said
14:56the Don doesn't care
14:57about her.
14:58That was the moment
14:59I understood.
15:00This wasn't a sudden punishment.
15:02This was a trap
15:03planned in advance.
15:04I struggled
15:05and screamed
15:05Renard's name.
15:07Revnard!
15:08Stop this!
15:14He turned
15:15and held
15:16the sobbing Evita,
15:17never looking back
15:17at me.
15:18Revnard,
15:19I'm so scared.
15:20It will be over soon.
15:22Those words
15:22were not for me.
15:26Don't blame me,
15:28Mrs. Castillo.
15:29A soldier follows orders.
15:34Simon,
15:35you know
15:35this is illegal!
15:36In this room,
15:37Le Gillet
15:38depends on
15:39owns the building.
15:43One,
15:45two,
15:46three.
15:59Who touched her?
16:01Every soldier froze.
16:02Before Mateo could react,
16:04the man shot him
16:05through the knee.
16:08By the way!
16:10By the way!
16:11By the way!
16:15Miss Soraya.
16:16He lowered his head.
16:17His voice was cold
16:18and steady.
16:19I'm Aslai Victor.
16:21The Visconti family
16:22here
16:23to take you home.
16:27The door
16:27had already filled
16:28with Visconti soldiers.
16:30He tried to approach
16:31me for the first time,
16:32but was stopped
16:33by the muzzle
16:33of a gun.
16:34I said silently,
16:37Too late,
16:38Renard.
16:38Someone has finally
16:40come to take me
16:41away from your hell.
16:48When I woke,
16:49the air smelled
16:50of disinfectant
16:51and cedar.
16:51Outside the window
16:52was not the gray wall
16:53of the Castillo estate,
16:55but a white terrace
16:56overlooking the sea.
17:01You were unconscious
17:02for seven days.
17:04My throat hurt.
17:06Where is Renard?
17:07The second I asked,
17:08I regretted it.
17:09There was no mockery
17:10in Aslan's eyes.
17:11The Castillo Don
17:12took his mistress
17:13to Miami.
17:14He thinks you were
17:15just locked up.
17:17My chest didn't hurt
17:18the way I expected it to.
17:20Maybe once pain
17:21goes far enough,
17:22numbness is all
17:23that remains.
17:27He wore a dark gray suit
17:28and carried an ebony cane.
17:30At the top of the cane
17:31was the Visconti crest,
17:32a rose and a dagger.
17:35Don.
17:38Soraya.
17:39Who are you?
17:42Vittorio Viscani,
17:43your grandfather.
17:44My mother had never told me
17:46she came from one of the
17:47oldest mafia families
17:48in Italy.
17:49She only said she had
17:50once been raised
17:50by a wealthy family,
17:52then left and never
17:53went back.
17:54Your mother was not
17:55an adopted daughter.
17:56She was the true
17:57eldest daughter
17:58of the Velasti family.
18:01Vittorio told me
18:02that during an internal
18:03war years ago,
18:04the family consigliere
18:05betrayed them
18:06and rival families
18:07hunted the bloodline.
18:08To protect my mother,
18:09she was sent out of Sicily
18:11under a false identity.
18:12Before she died,
18:13she left behind
18:14a sample of my blood
18:15and half of a family ring.
18:16Vittorio had searched
18:17for me four years
18:19until I made that phone call.
18:20You are not Castillo's
18:22discarded wife.
18:25You are the only heir
18:27of the Visconti family.
18:30From this day on,
18:32until the formal coronation,
18:33every capo,
18:34maid member,
18:35and soldier
18:35will address you as Donna
18:36in answer to your orders.
18:37I looked at the ring.
18:39The red looked like blood.
18:41It also looked like
18:42the first rose
18:43to wake in spring.
18:44What about my marriage?
18:48Your five-year contract
18:49with Renmar Castillo
18:50has expired.
18:51The dissolution papers
18:53have been filed.
18:53You are free now.
18:55Free?
18:56The word landed inside me
18:57sharper than a knife.
18:59Child,
19:00what do you want to do?
19:02If this had been before,
19:04maybe I would have cried.
19:05Maybe I would have hidden.
19:06Maybe I would have said
19:07to let it go.
19:08But I had died once
19:09in that interrogation room.
19:11Soraya Castillo died there.
19:13The woman who woke up
19:14was Soraya Visconti.
19:18I want the Castillo family
19:19to repay the blood debt.
19:21I want Evita,
19:23Matteo,
19:24and Simon.
19:26Not one of them gets away.
19:27And Renard.
19:31I want him to see
19:32with his own eyes
19:33that the wife he threw away
19:34is the Donna he can never reach again.
19:38Vittorio did not hand me
19:39everything at once.
19:41A mafia family does not bow
19:42because of blood alone.
19:43Blood is the ticket.
19:45Power must be taken.
19:46On the eighth day
19:47after I woke in the hospital bed,
19:48I pulled out the four
19:49and told Uslun
19:50to bring me the ledgers
19:51for South Harbor,
19:52the underground hospitals,
19:53the casinos,
19:54the weapons warehouses,
19:56and the council.
19:59Miss Visconti,
20:00your body is still too weak.
20:02I almost died
20:04on an operating table.
20:05I didn't survive
20:06just to lie here
20:06while others avenge me.
20:08That night,
20:09I signed three orders.
20:13First,
20:14freeze every account
20:15under the names of Evita,
20:17Matteo,
20:18and Simon
20:18that had ever been cleaned
20:19through Castillo channels.
20:22Yes.
20:23Second,
20:24recall every
20:25Visanti associate
20:26embedded inside
20:27the Castillo
20:27underground clinic.
20:29From now on,
20:30they answer to me.
20:31Vittorio's eyes
20:32sharpened with approval.
20:34Third,
20:35cut off the medical route
20:36at South Harbor Pier 3.
20:37Without my signature,
20:38not one
20:39wounded Castillo soldier
20:41will enter
20:41a Vizalvi hospital.
20:44Yes, Donna.
20:45From that moment on,
20:46I was not the pitiful woman
20:47they had rescued.
20:48I was the one
20:49beginning the reckoning.
20:51Vittorio smiled.
20:52There was pride
20:53in that smile
20:54and the coldness
20:55of a mafia dome.
20:56Good.
20:58The tide crashed
20:59against the rocks.
21:00The Castillo family
21:02was unaware
21:02that I had personally
21:03reopened
21:04their first wound.
21:06One month later,
21:07in a Miami hotel suite,
21:09Renard had just
21:09sat up in bed
21:10when a blood-soaked man
21:11was thrown
21:12through the doorway.
21:13Renard!
21:13The man on the floor
21:14was Matteo.
21:21Don't.
21:23Save me.
21:26Inside were two documents.
21:28One was proof
21:29of marriage dissolution.
21:31The other was
21:31a black invitation
21:32signed by Saraya.
21:34On it was only
21:35one sentence.
21:36The debt the Castillo family
21:37owes will now be collected
21:39by the Visconti family.
21:44At last he remembered.
21:46On their wedding night
21:47five years ago,
21:48he had made
21:49Saraya sign that contract.
21:51Automatic dissolution
21:52after five years.
21:53The date was
21:54one month ago.
21:55The same day
21:56he sent Ivita to Saraya
21:57for the 100th reconstruction.
22:01Where is she?
22:02The Visconti family!
22:03The Visconti family
22:05took her!
22:07The Castillo family
22:08had ruled
22:09New York's underworld
22:10for years,
22:10but compared
22:11with a true
22:12old-blood mafia family,
22:13they were still newcomers.
22:15The Viscontis
22:16controlled East Coast ports,
22:18underground hospitals,
22:19art laundering routes,
22:21arms transfer warehouses,
22:22and three judges
22:23they had helped
22:24put on the bench.
22:25More importantly,
22:26the Viscontis
22:27had been silent
22:28for ten years.
22:29Once they resurfaced,
22:30they would not come
22:31only to retrieve a woman.
22:33They would come for blood.
22:37Don, we have a problem.
22:39South Harbor Pier 3
22:41has been sealed.
22:42The casino ledgers
22:43were submitted
22:43to federal investigators.
22:46Two Kappas
22:46have gone missing
22:47at the same time.
22:50Who did it?
22:54Visconti.
22:55Evada's face shifted.
22:57Revner,
22:58don't bother with her.
22:59She's just jealous of me.
23:03Shut up.
23:04It was the first time
23:05he had ever shouted
23:06at her like that.
23:12It was Miss Evada!
23:15She told me
23:15to scare your wife
23:17in the interrogation room.
23:19She also told me
23:20to pay Simon
23:21to plant the Glar.
23:23Evada went white.
23:25You're lying!
23:27She said the Don
23:28didn't care about his wife.
23:30She said
23:31once your wife
23:32was ruined,
23:33she would become
23:34the Donna!
23:39You touched my wife?
23:45She isn't your wife
23:46anymore.
23:46That sentence
23:47hit Renard
23:48in the chest
23:48like a blade.
23:49Yes,
23:49she wasn't.
23:50He had lost her himself.
23:52Renard looked down
23:53at the termination document
23:54and realized
23:54for the first time
23:55that paper could be
23:56like a knife.
23:57completely cutting
23:58a person out
23:58of his world.
24:00The Visconti
24:01meeting hall
24:02was built
24:02by the sea.
24:03The consigliere,
24:04the capos,
24:05the underboss,
24:06representatives
24:06of the made men.
24:07Most of them
24:08were older than me.
24:09Most had questioned me.
24:10Why should a girl
24:11who had disappeared
24:12for years
24:12inherit Visconti?
24:13The Visconti rules
24:14were old and hard.
24:15The Don
24:16held power.
24:17The consigliere
24:17guarded law.
24:18The underboss
24:19commanded the men.
24:20The capos
24:20controlled territory.
24:21Made men
24:22swore in blood.
24:23Soldiers
24:23obeyed with their lives.
24:24Anyone who wanted
24:25the seat at the end
24:26of the table
24:26had to prove
24:27she could protect
24:28the family's blood,
24:29money,
24:29and secrets.
24:30I knew they were
24:31waiting for me
24:31to cry to retreat,
24:33to lower my head
24:33the way I had
24:34for the past five years.
24:35But they didn't know
24:36Renard had taught me
24:37one thing with his own hands.
24:38Weakness is not a virtue
24:39in the mafia world.
24:41It is an invitation
24:42for someone
24:42to slit your throat.
24:43Before the meeting began,
24:45Salvatore,
24:46the North District
24:46capo spoke.
24:48Don,
24:48I respect your
24:49bloodline decision,
24:51but a family
24:51is not a fairy tale.
24:53Can a woman
24:54humiliated by Castillo
24:55for five years
24:56really sit
24:58in that chair?
24:59The hall went still.
25:00Behind me,
25:01Aslan's hand
25:01moved to his gun.
25:05Let him finish.
25:08I have finished.
25:12Then it's my turn.
25:17Salvatore,
25:18three years ago,
25:20the bars in your district
25:21laundered money
25:22through the Castillo family.
25:23You shorted the family
25:251.7 million.
25:29Last year,
25:31you sold the movements
25:32of two maid members
25:33to the rival
25:34Draco family.
25:35They died at the docks.
25:36You told my grandfather
25:38it was an accidental shootout.
25:41You asked whether
25:42I can sit in this chair.
25:44I stood,
25:44my ruby-ringed hand
25:45pressed against the table.
25:47Before I sit,
25:47I clean the blood off it.
25:55You have no right
25:56to judge me!
25:59Of course I do.
26:01Because from today forward,
26:03the Viscosi
26:03underground hospitals,
26:05port medical routes,
26:07family ledgers,
26:08and soldier deployment
26:10orders all require
26:11my signature.
26:12Those who betray
26:13the family
26:14repay with blood.
26:17No one questioned me again.
26:23Saraya.
26:24I didn't take it immediately.
26:25I looked down
26:26both sides of the table.
26:27I know many of you
26:29don't accept me.
26:31That's fine.
26:32In the next three days,
26:33I will take back
26:34South Harbor,
26:35cut off Castillo's
26:36weapons route,
26:37and buy the debt
26:38on two of their casinos.
26:42Anyone who chooses
26:43loyalty
26:43may sit and drink.
26:46Anyone who chooses
26:47betrayal,
26:47the door is there.
26:48No one moved.
26:50I took the staff.
26:51From that moment on,
26:52the Visconti family
26:53began to answer
26:54not only to an old doan.
26:56They had accepted
26:57the woman who would
26:57soon be crowned Donna.
27:00When Renard found
27:01the estate,
27:01I was at the private
27:02hospital for a checkup.
27:06He carried no gun.
27:07His suit was wrinkled.
27:08The Castillo don't,
27:10always so untouchable,
27:11looked for the first time
27:12like a stray dog
27:13thrown out in the rain.
27:14I need to see her.
27:19The Donna is resting.
27:22Donna.
27:23The title struck him
27:24like a slap
27:25and woke every fear
27:26that had come to late.
27:27I sat in bed
27:28and spoke calmly.
27:29Let him in.
27:33He saw the bandages
27:34on my wrists,
27:35the bruises still fading
27:36along my neck,
27:37and the wedding ring
27:38I had removed
27:39and left on the bedside table.
27:42Soraya.
27:44What business
27:45does the Castillo don
27:46have on Vizimanti ground?
27:49Don't call me that.
27:51What should I call you then?
27:52Ex-husband?
27:56I didn't know
27:57Evita had done those things.
27:58I thought they were
27:59only going to scare you.
28:00I never meant for them
28:01to actually hurt you.
28:03I laughed.
28:04Remard,
28:05you always do this.
28:08You give orders
28:09and never look back
28:10at the consequences.
28:11You said not touching me
28:13was being responsible,
28:14then let the whole family
28:15know you didn't touch me.
28:17You said you'd come home
28:19after you were done playing,
28:20but you sent woman
28:21after woman
28:21to my operating table.
28:23You said you gave me dignity,
28:25but you gave your little mistress
28:26the passenger seat
28:27and made me sit in the back.
28:28You said they were
28:30only going to scare me,
28:31but if that interrogation room
28:33door had opened
28:34one minute later,
28:35my life would have been destroyed.
28:41I'm sorry.
28:42Five years ago,
28:43I would have given anything
28:44for him to lower his eyes
28:45and look at me once.
28:47Now that he was on his knees,
28:48I only felt nothing.
28:50Renard,
28:50I've loved you
28:51since I was 12.
28:53On the day I married you,
28:55I truly thought
28:56I had been given
28:56the whole world,
28:57but you spent five years
28:58teaching me
28:59I was only the cheapest piece
29:00on your family's chessboard.
29:02Now the piece
29:03has left the board,
29:04and you're asking
29:05if she can come back.
29:07I love you.
29:08Love that comes too late
29:09is light as ash.
29:12Your love can't save
29:13the woman who already died once,
29:15and it can't buy me back.
29:17From now on,
29:18you can kneel.
29:19You can cry.
29:20You can cut your heart out
29:21and show it to me.
29:23But I will not turn back.
29:27Renard,
29:27there is only debt between us.
29:29No future.
29:36Dona South Harbor
29:37has been taken back.
29:38Castillo's under mass
29:38is requesting negotiations.
29:41Tell them the meeting
29:43will be held
29:43in the family hall.
29:44Renard's head snapped up.
29:46You're declaring war
29:47on Castillo?
29:48No.
29:49I'm collecting a debt.
29:53Saraya,
29:54the Castillo family
29:55is not a toy.
29:56Once the council
29:57gets involved,
29:58people will die.
30:00People already
30:01almost died?
30:02I lifted my bandaged wrist.
30:04You just didn't care
30:05when the person was me.
30:07Renard had no answer.
30:08For five years,
30:09he had seen me
30:10in white coats,
30:10banquet gowns,
30:11and silent seats
30:12at his side.
30:13He had never seen me
30:14as an enemy
30:14across the table.
30:15Now he finally had to.
30:17What do you want from me?
30:19Truth,
30:20territory,
30:20names,
30:21and punishment.
30:22And if I give them?
30:23Then Castillo bleeds less.
30:25And if I refuse?
30:27Aslan looked at him
30:28with a cold smile.
30:29Then Castillo bleeds first.
30:32Escort Mr. Castillo out.
30:37This time,
30:38he was the one
30:39being dismissed.
30:41When Ivita was dragged
30:42into the interrogation room,
30:43none of her former
30:44sweetness remained.
30:45Her dress was wrinkled.
30:47Her makeup had run
30:47from crying.
30:48On her wrist was still
30:49the pink diamond bracelet
30:50Renard had given her.
30:51I sat behind the glass
30:53in the head seat.
30:54This time,
30:55I was not the one
30:56being judged.
30:57She was.
31:01First,
31:02her payment records
31:03to Simon.
31:04Second,
31:05the call recordings
31:06between her and Mattelio.
31:08Third,
31:08surveillance showing her
31:09using Reynolds' phone
31:10and intercepting
31:11the clinic's emergency call.
31:12Fourth,
31:13the order she gave
31:14to lower the cold room
31:15temperature below freezing.
31:17So what?
31:18She didn't deserve
31:19to be the Don's wife!
31:20I said calmly,
31:22And you did?
31:28Ivita sobbed
31:29and crawled toward him.
31:30Renard,
31:32save me.
31:34You said you would marry me.
31:38You said I looked
31:39like your sister.
31:40You said I was
31:41the cleanest.
31:43Who told you
31:44about my sister?
31:47Aslan threw
31:48the final file
31:48onto the table.
31:49It was a plastic
31:50surgery record.
31:51Evita Bellan's face
31:53waiting altered
31:53according to an old
31:54photo of your dead sister.
31:56From the very beginning,
31:57she had come prepared.
31:59She was not a coincidence.
32:01She was a pawn
32:02sent to Renard
32:02by the rival
32:03Draco family.
32:06Renard's hand
32:07loosened inch by inch.
32:08At last,
32:09he understood
32:09what kind of joke
32:10he had been cherishing.
32:15Soraya,
32:17I was wrong.
32:18Let me go.
32:20I just loved him
32:21too much.
32:23Love?
32:24You put an innocent woman
32:25in an interrogation chair,
32:27stole a distress call,
32:28bought a doctor,
32:30bribed a soldier,
32:31and tried to climb on
32:32over another woman's body.
32:33That isn't love.
32:35That's filth.
32:37Her face turned white.
32:38By family law,
32:40she is an associate
32:41of a rival family
32:42who participated
32:43in the attempted murder
32:44of the Vizisci heir.
32:46Strip all status.
32:47Freeze every account.
32:48Remove Castillo protection.
32:50Deliver her to the council
32:51for interrogation
32:52on Draco roots.
32:53Her name goes on the blacklist.
32:55From New York to Sicily,
32:56no casino,
32:57underground clinic,
32:59club,
32:59or auction house
33:00will admit her.
33:01She used her face
33:02to open doors.
33:03From today on,
33:04every one of those doors
33:05is closed.
33:06The lights in the interrogation room
33:07were painfully white.
33:08Iveta finally understood
33:10that losing a man's favor
33:11was not the frightening part.
33:12The frightening part
33:13was losing her past
33:14into the family world.
33:15In the mafia world,
33:16being rejected by every family
33:18is the same as being buried alive
33:19while still breathing.
33:21No!
33:22I won't go into
33:23the interrogation room!
33:25Revan!
33:25Save me!
33:26Renard did not move.
33:28He only looked at me,
33:29as if he had finally realized
33:30I was no longer the wife
33:31who would turn red-eyed
33:32over one word from him.
33:34I stood and left.
33:38Every cut she gave me,
33:40I had returned.
33:41An eye for an eye
33:42that's the law
33:42of the mafia world.
33:45Seventeen Castillo representatives
33:46came to the family meeting.
33:58Donna.
34:04Begin.
34:05South Harbor Pier 3
34:07to casinos.
34:08Three weapons routes
34:09for laundering accounts.
34:11Every one of them
34:12was a lifeline
34:13for the Castillo family.
34:14For the past five years,
34:15they had used my father's debt
34:17to force me
34:17to lower my head.
34:18They had used the marriage alliance
34:20to occupy
34:20old Viscondi resources.
34:22Now I was taking them back
34:23one by one.
34:26Donna.
34:28Castillo.
34:28Is willing to compensate you.
34:32Compensate me?
34:33Your Don treated my body.
34:34My reputation
34:35and my marriage
34:36as things that could be traded.
34:38Now you want to solve it with money?
34:39What do you want?
34:42First,
34:43the Castillo family
34:44surrenders control of South Harbor.
34:46Second,
34:48all underground medical rights
34:50return to Viscondi.
34:51Third,
34:53Simon Klein
34:53will be handed over
34:54to Vicente Judgment.
34:58Fourth,
34:59Renard Castillo
35:00steps down as Don
35:01and surrenders the family ring.
35:02Fifth,
35:03he will personally acknowledge
35:04the blood debt
35:05Castillo owes
35:06the Viscondi heir.
35:08Sixth,
35:09Castillo may not use
35:10alliance,
35:11debt,
35:12or any old contract
35:13to demand
35:13that I fulfill
35:14any duty as a wife.
35:16Seventh,
35:16Renmar himself
35:17may not set foot
35:17in my estate,
35:18hospital,
35:19harbor,
35:19or any territory
35:20under Viscondi protection.
35:24The hall erupted.
35:28Impossible!
35:31Then we go to war.
35:34Viscondi is ready.
35:36Across the table,
35:37Renard stayed silent
35:38for a long time.
35:43Done!
35:45I owe her.
35:46I looked at the ring
35:47being pushed
35:47to the center of the table.
35:48Once,
35:49I had wanted so desperately
35:51to be the mistress
35:52of that ring.
35:52Now it lay in front of me,
35:54and I found it dirty.
35:55It is not you
35:56who owes me.
35:58It is the Castillo family
36:00that owes Viscondi.
36:02After Regnard
36:03loses his position,
36:05by family law,
36:06he will be
36:07exiled
36:08to the old mines
36:09in Sicily.
36:10Without orders,
36:11he may not return
36:13to New York.
36:13Renard looked at me.
36:14Will that satisfy you?
36:18Not enough.
36:21It was not a compensation agreement.
36:23It was an exile order.
36:26You will be sent
36:27to the old mines in Sicily.
36:28No soldiers.
36:29No underboss.
36:31No conciliary.
36:32No women to keep you warm.
36:33All private assets
36:34under your name
36:35will first be used
36:36to compensate
36:37the underground clinic doctors
36:38you sacrificed
36:39and the families
36:40of the dead
36:40Viscense made men.
36:42You will stay alive.
36:44Every month,
36:45you will submit
36:45a confession report
36:46to the council.
36:47Every page
36:48will carry my name.
36:52I want you alive.
36:54Alive to watch me
36:55take over for everything
36:56you were once proud of.
36:58Alive to remember
36:59that I am not a home
37:01you can return to
37:01when you are done playing.
37:03I am the spring
37:04you will never reach again.
37:06When Simon was brought
37:07into the underground
37:08interrogation room,
37:09he still tried
37:10to preserve
37:10a doctor's dignity.
37:12Soraya,
37:12we're colleagues.
37:14Standing behind the glass,
37:15I heard that and laughed.
37:16Colleagues,
37:17a real doctor
37:18does not put gauze
37:18into a patient's wound.
37:20A real doctor
37:20does not use a scalpel
37:22to help the powerful
37:22humiliate women.
37:24A real doctor
37:25does not push
37:25an unconscious person
37:26toward destruction.
37:27The consigliere
37:28handed me
37:29the interrogation results.
37:30Simon admitted
37:31he had taken money
37:32from Evita
37:33and from the Draco family
37:34as well.
37:34His original task
37:35was to trigger
37:36a full conflict
37:37between Castillo Vislani
37:38so the Dracos
37:40could take South Harbor
37:41in the chaos.
37:42He thought I was
37:42the easiest pawn
37:43to sacrifice
37:44because everyone knew
37:45Renard didn't love
37:46his wife.
37:48Revoke his right
37:49to practice
37:50in every underground hospital.
37:52And then?
37:53Send him
37:53to the North District
37:54Mines.
37:56They need someone
37:57who knows
37:57how to close wounds.
38:01He may save others.
38:03No one may save him.
38:04Mateo's trial
38:05was simpler.
38:10Donna,
38:11I didn't actually
38:12touch you!
38:13Evita tricked me!
38:14I'm just a soldier!
38:15I sat in my chair
38:16and looked at his
38:17mangled knee.
38:18What matters most
38:19for a soldier?
38:21Loyalty.
38:22You betrayed your Don.
38:23You betrayed family law.
38:25You treated a woman's
38:25vulnerability as something
38:26you could trade
38:27for reward.
38:27I was wrong!
38:31When you are wrong,
38:33you pay.
38:36Sign it.
38:37Identify Elvita,
38:38the Draco family
38:39in every transaction
38:39with Simon.
38:42Destroy the hand
38:43he uses to hold a gun.
38:44Remove him from
38:45every family protection list.
38:47The night before
38:48Renard was exiled.
38:49He came to see me
38:50one last time.
38:51Rain poured over
38:52New York.
38:53He stood outside
38:54the Visconti estate,
38:55soaked through,
38:56holding an old box.
38:57When the soldier
38:57came to report,
38:58I was reviewing
38:59the new South Harbor
39:00shipping schedule.
39:01Donna,
39:02Mr. Castillo
39:03requests to see you.
39:06Let him in.
39:07He walked into the study
39:08and placed the box
39:09on the desk.
39:10Inside were the things
39:11I had left behind
39:12at the Castillo estate.
39:13The pink nightdress
39:14I had hidden
39:14in the deepest part
39:15of the closet.
39:16An old diary
39:17filled with his name
39:18and the pink diamond bracelet
39:19he should have given me.
39:20I found these
39:21in your room.
39:23I had never gone in before.
39:2612, 16, 20.
39:28Every page held the humble,
39:29burning love of the girl
39:30I used to be.
39:31Renard looked at me today.
39:32He doesn't like pink.
39:33I won't wear pink anymore.
39:35Five years is a long time.
39:37Maybe he'll fall in love with me.
39:39Burn it.
39:40Renard turned pale.
39:42Saraya.
39:42Those things aren't me anymore.
39:44But the sound was broken.
39:46Only now do I understand
39:47how long you loved me.
39:49Yes.
39:49I admitted it calmly.
39:51But love is not
39:51a lifetime license.
39:54I'll accept exile.
39:55I'll surrender everything.
39:56I only ask you.
39:57Don't erase me completely.
39:59You are still trying
40:00to use my memories
40:00as your escape route.
40:03Listen carefully.
40:05I will not wait for you.
40:06I will not forgive you.
40:07I will not start over with you.
40:09All the pain you suffer
40:10for the rest of your life
40:11has nothing to do with me.
40:13Once he stood while I looked up.
40:14Now he knelt while I looked down.
40:16Fate was a cold circle.
40:18Renard,
40:18the worst pain
40:19is not losing me.
40:20It is realizing
40:20that what you threw away
40:22was worth more
40:22than everything you still possess.
40:30Donna,
40:30the Draco Consolietta,
40:32has arrived.
40:37Surya,
40:38one last question.
40:39If I had loved you
40:40from the beginning,
40:41would we have different?
40:44Maybe.
40:48But you didn't.
40:50So there is no if.
40:53The old diary
40:54lay open on the desk.
40:55The ink on one page
40:56had blurred from age,
40:57or maybe from the tears
40:58of the girl who wrote it.
41:00But that girl was gone.
41:04Before the door closed,
41:05I heard Renard say hoarsely,
41:07I finally came home,
41:08but there is no home left.
41:10This belated realization
41:11was not enough
41:12to bring anything back.
41:14On the day Vittorio
41:15officially stepped down,
41:16the Visconti estate
41:17was covered in white roses.
41:19It was not a wedding.
41:20It was a coronation.
41:21Every capo,
41:22the consigliere,
41:23the underboss,
41:24and representatives
41:25of the made men
41:25were present.
41:26In the center of the hall,
41:27I wore a black gown
41:28with a silver gray cloak
41:29over my shoulders.
41:30The ruby ring
41:31under the lights
41:32looked like a drop
41:33of frozen blood.
41:36Serea Visconti.
41:37His voice was aged,
41:39but it carried
41:39through the hall.
41:40From this day forward,
41:42you are the Donna
41:43of Viscotti family.
41:47Donna.
41:48In that moment,
41:48I did not want to cry.
41:50I only remembered
41:51our wedding night
41:51five years ago,
41:52when Renard pushed
41:53the marriage contract
41:54toward me and said
41:55all I had to do
41:56was quietly be his wife.
41:57But I was no one's appendage.
41:59I was not a shadow
42:00left cold for five years.
42:01Not a joke used to make
42:02a mistress feel cherished.
42:04Not a discarded wife
42:05strapped to an interrogation chair.
42:07I was Serea Visconti,
42:08the Donna,
42:09the new owner
42:10of this underground kingdom.
42:11After the coronation,
42:13the Draco family
42:13sent a peace proposal.
42:15The remaining Castillo men
42:16sent a loyalty list.
42:17I did not sign immediately.
42:19I told Eslan
42:20to place every name
42:21on the desk.
42:22Loyalty is not written
42:23on paper.
42:24Three months of observation.
42:25Anyone who has betrayed once
42:26never enters the core again.
42:31Yes, Donna.
42:33Late that night,
42:34I walked onto the terrace.
42:36The sea wind lifted
42:37the hem of my dress.
42:38Aslan stood
42:39half a step behind me.
42:40Castillo has been
42:41put on the ship.
42:42Where to?
42:43The old mines in Sicily.
42:44No sea casino.
42:45No women.
42:46No staff.
42:47Only his father's
42:48abandoned house
42:48and a small church.
42:50Aslan looked at me.
42:51You're not going
42:52to see him off.
42:54What does his exile
42:55have to do with me?
42:57Are you free tomorrow?
42:59For what?
43:00He placed a ticket
43:01in my palm.
43:02An amusement park ticket.
43:04A long time ago,
43:05I begged Renard
43:06to go with me.
43:07He said places like
43:08that were childish
43:09and that business partners
43:10would laugh at him.
43:11Later,
43:11he took Iveta.
43:12He even bought her
43:13a pink headband.
43:15Aslan's tone was calm.
43:16Even a Donna
43:17can take a day off.
43:18I looked at the ticket
43:19and suddenly smiled.
43:21All right.
43:22A Visconti soldier
43:23stepped onto the terrace
43:24and lowered his head.
43:25Donna,
43:26the Castillo escort
43:27is requesting permission
43:28to deliver Mr. Castillo's
43:29final message
43:30before the ship leaves.
43:31I did not take
43:32the sealed phone
43:33he offered.
43:33I only looked
43:34toward the dark line
43:35of the harbor
43:36where a man
43:37who once made
43:37the entire city
43:38wait for him
43:38was now waiting
43:39for my answer.
43:41Tell the escort
43:42the Visemonia State
43:43is not a chapel
43:44for late confessions.
43:46Aslan's eyes
43:46moved to the amusement
43:47park ticket
43:48still resting in my palm.
43:49He may keep asking.
43:50Then let him learn
43:51what waiting feels like.
43:53The soldier bowed
43:54and withdrew.
43:54This time,
43:55no one chased
43:56a departing car,
43:57no one tore a city apart,
43:58and no one shouted
43:59my name through the rain.
44:01The only sound left
44:02was the sea,
44:03calm and merciless.
44:04A distant port whistle
44:05sounds.
44:06Some are banished
44:07to the ruins
44:08of the old spring
44:08while I am finally
44:10about to step
44:10into my own new spring.
44:13The day Renard
44:14left New York,
44:15Soraya did not
44:15go to the dock.
44:16Renard stood on the ship
44:17for a long time,
44:19staring in the direction
44:19of the Visconti estate.
44:21The wind cut
44:21through his coat.
44:22No one offered him
44:23another one.
44:24For years,
44:24men had rushed
44:25to open doors,
44:26light cigars,
44:27pour wine,
44:28and lower their heads
44:29before he even spoke.
44:30Now to Castillo escorts
44:31stood behind him
44:32only because the exile order
44:33required witnesses.
44:34Mr. Castillo,
44:35the ship is leaving.
44:37Mr. Castillo,
44:38not Doan.
44:38The title scraped
44:39across his bones.
44:41Renard looked at the dock.
44:42The new Castillo Doan
44:43had not come either.
44:44His under boss,
44:44the man who had once
44:45followed him
44:46through gunfire,
44:47now wore the snake crest ring.
44:48Did she say anything?
44:52The Donna said
44:53your exile
44:54has nothing to do with her.
44:55Renard's mouth moved,
44:57but no sound came out.
44:58At the end of the dock,
44:59an old priest
45:00from the small Sicilian church
45:02boarded the ship
45:02with a sealed folder.
45:03Monthly confession forms.
45:05The council wants
45:06the first page
45:07before arrival.
45:08Renard took the folder.
45:09At the top of every page
45:10was Soraya's name.
45:12He remembered her
45:12standing in the snow
45:13outside his car
45:14while he promised fireworks
45:15to another woman.
45:16He remembered saying
45:17the passenger seat
45:18belonged to Ivita.
45:19He remembered ordering
45:20Soraya to apologize
45:21before he even
45:22looked at the evidence.
45:23Departure in five minutes!
45:28Call Vizdati!
45:29Tell her I'll sign
45:30everything again!
45:32Tell her I only want
45:33one minute!
45:33The escort's face
45:34did not change.
45:35The Visconti estate
45:36blocks all calls
45:37from this dock.
45:38The ship horn sounded.
45:40For the first time,
45:42Renard Castillo
45:42was the one left behind.
45:44Watching a world
45:45close its doors
45:45without asking
45:46whether he was ready.
45:49Sicily welcomed
45:50Renard with rain.
45:51The old mines
45:52were nothing like New York.
45:53No casino lights.
45:54No cigar lounge.
45:56No armored cars
45:56waiting outside.
45:58Only wet stone,
45:59rusted gates,
46:00and a small church
46:01whose bell sounded
46:02like a judgment.
46:03This is your house.
46:05Renard looked at
46:06the cracked walls
46:06and the narrow bed.
46:07Council rules.
46:09No private staff.
46:10No personal guards.
46:12No visitors
46:12without permission.
46:13Confession reports
46:14are due every month.
46:16Leave.
46:17You don't give orders
46:18here, Mr. Castillo.
46:20After the door closed,
46:21Renard opened
46:22the old box
46:23he had been allowed
46:23to keep.
46:24Inside was the diary
46:25Soraya had told him
46:26to burn.
46:27He had not burned it.
46:28He opened the first page.
46:29I saw Renard today.
46:31He looked like a king,
46:32but he spoke for me
46:33when no one else did.
46:35He doesn't like pink.
46:37I will stop wearing pink.
46:38Maybe one day
46:39he will look at me
46:40without laughing.
46:41Another page.
46:41Today he sent
46:43another woman
46:43to my clinic.
46:44I wanted to ask
46:45if he knew my hands
46:46shook after every surgery,
46:47but he called it
46:48payment and left.
46:49Renard pressed the diary
46:50to his chest,
46:51breathing like a man
46:52with a bullet
46:53lodged inside him.
46:54The old priest
46:55came in without knocking.
46:56Your first confession.
46:58What do I write?
47:01Start with the first wound.
47:04Renard picked up the pen.
47:05For a long time,
47:06he could only write
47:07one sentence.
47:08I made her sit
47:08in the back seat.
47:09Outside,
47:10rain hit the church window
47:11like fingers tapping
47:12on a coffin lid.
47:15A week after Renard
47:16reached Sicily,
47:17the first confession report
47:18arrived at the Visconti estate.
47:23Donna,
47:24from the old mines,
47:25I didn't open it immediately.
47:27Is it required
47:27by council procedure?
47:29Yes.
47:30Then archive a copy
47:31and send one to the council.
47:32Aslan stood beside me,
47:34watching the envelope.
47:35There is a personal letter inside.
47:40Remove it.
47:41Aslan opened the envelope.
47:42A folded page fell out.
47:44Renard's handwriting was rough,
47:46as if written by someone
47:47who had forgotten
47:47how to be steady.
47:49Soraya,
47:49I read the diary.
47:50I finally know
47:51what Pink meant to you.
47:52I finally know
47:53how many times
47:53you waited outside my study.
47:54I finally know
47:55I made you into a ghost
47:56while you were still alive.
47:59Do you want me to continue?
48:01I reached for the next document.
48:03No.
48:03He burned the personal letter
48:05in the silver tray
48:05by the window.
48:06The flame swallowed
48:07the paper slowly.
48:08For a moment,
48:09I remembered the girl
48:10who once would have kept
48:11even a torn corner
48:12of Renard's writing
48:13like a treasure.
48:14That girl had been easier to hurt
48:15because she confused
48:16crumbs with love.
48:17He will probably
48:18send another one.
48:19Then burn another one.
48:20Aslan's eyes softened
48:21almost imperceptibly.
48:22And if one day he stops?
48:24I finally looked up.
48:25Then the world
48:26will be quieter.
48:27Outside the window,
48:28spring sunlight
48:29fell across the desk.
48:30It touched the red
48:31Visconti ring,
48:31not the old wedding scar.
48:33On the second week of exile,
48:35a Draco messenger
48:36came to the old church.
48:37Renard was sitting
48:38in the last pew,
48:39writing the second
48:40confession report.
48:41I told her not touching her
48:42was responsibility.
48:43In truth,
48:44it was cowardice
48:44dressed as pride.
48:45The church door
48:46opened behind him.
48:47Renard Castillo.
48:48Renard didn't turn.
48:50I'm not done anymore.
48:51That is exactly why we came.
48:52The messenger placed
48:53a sealed envelope
48:54on the pew.
48:55Visconti humiliated you.
48:56Sereva took your ports,
48:58your ring,
48:58your family seed.
48:59Help us open one route
49:00through South Harbor.
49:02And we can put you
49:04back in New York.
49:05Renard's hand stilled.
49:06For one second,
49:07the old instinct
49:08moved in him.
49:09Power, return, revenge,
49:10the things he had once
49:11thought mattered most.
49:12Then he remembered
49:13Saraya in the interrogation chair.
49:15He remembered her saying,
49:16You give orders
49:17and never look back
49:18at the consequences.
49:22You would choose exile
49:24for a woman
49:24who won't even
49:25read your letters?
49:26No.
49:26He watched the paper
49:28curl black.
49:29I choose not to commit
49:30one more crime
49:31in her name.
49:33Before he could move,
49:34a shot cracked
49:35through the church window.
49:36The mine guard
49:36kicked the door open
49:37with two Visconti soldiers
49:38behind him.
49:39Donna's order.
49:40Draco Contact
49:41is to be captured alive.
49:44She knew.
49:46The Donna knows
49:46everything that happens
49:47on Visnuti ground.
49:49For a second,
49:50something like hope
49:50flashed in Renard's eyes.
49:52The guard
49:52crushed it immediately.
49:53She also said,
49:54your refusal
49:55changes nothing.
49:56Renard lowered his head.
49:57The confession page
49:58in front of him
49:58was wet from rain
49:59blown through
50:00the broken window.
50:01He picked up the pen
50:02and continued writing.
50:04The captured Draco messenger
50:05brought more than a knife.
50:06He brought root maps,
50:08bribery lists,
50:09and the names of
50:09three Castillo men
50:10who had been feeding
50:11Draco information
50:12since before
50:12Ivita entered Renard.
50:13At the Visconti hearing,
50:15the Draco consigliere
50:16sat with his hands
50:17chained to the table.
50:18Donna,
50:19this can be negotiated.
50:20I looked at the evidence
50:21Eslund placed before me.
50:23You sent Evita to Renard.
50:25A woman chose her own path.
50:27You gave Simon money.
50:28Doctors are greedy everywhere.
50:31You tried to use my body
50:32as the battlefield
50:32for two families.
50:34The hall went silent.
50:35I opened Renard's
50:36second confession report
50:37and placed it
50:38beside the Draco file.
50:39Even Renard Castillo admits,
50:41Castillo law became a weapon
50:42in the hands of outsiders
50:43because he was too arrogant
50:45to look at the truth.
50:46Aslan read the relevant
50:47line aloud.
50:48I gave orders
50:49without seeing her.
50:50That blindness
50:51allowed every traitor
50:52near me
50:53to choose her
50:54as the sacrifice.
50:55The council members
50:55exchanged looks.
50:57Draco consigliere's
50:58expression finally cracked.
51:00You would use his confession
51:02against his own family?
51:04I smiled faintly.
51:05He writes my name
51:06on every page.
51:07I may as well
51:08make it useful.
51:09Then I sign
51:09the final transfer.
51:11South Harbor
51:11is no longer
51:12disputed territory.
51:13Visowni controls
51:14the medical route,
51:15weapons route,
51:16casino ledger route,
51:17and emergency dock authority.
51:19And Draco?
51:20They pay for the
51:21attempted murder
51:22of the Vosky heir.
51:23The consigliere's
51:24face turned gray.
51:26I closed the file.
51:27Tell Sicily
51:28the old spring is awake.
51:31Evada's fate
51:31reached Sicily
51:32before she did.
51:33She gave up
51:34three Draco roots
51:35in exchange for her life,
51:36but every family
51:37blacklisted her.
51:38No casino
51:39would accept her.
51:40No doctor
51:41would touch her face.
51:42No man dared
51:43to protect her in public.
51:44At dusk,
51:45she stood outside
51:45the Mafia Council building
51:47in a wrinkled coat,
51:48trying to stop
51:48a former patron.
51:50You know me.
51:52You said I was beautiful.
51:55You said
51:56if Renmick ever
51:57got tired of me,
51:58you would take me in.
52:00The man stepped back
52:01as if she carried disease.
52:02Your name
52:03is on Vosky Blacklist.
52:05I can give you information.
52:07You already gave
52:07everything worth buying.
52:09He left
52:09without looking back.
52:10A council guard
52:11shoved her away
52:12from the doors.
52:14No entry.
52:14Ivita stumbled
52:16down the stone steps.
52:17Rain had started again.
52:19Her makeup ran
52:20into black streaks,
52:21and the pink diamond
52:22bracelet on her wrist
52:23looked cheap
52:23under the gray sky.
52:24She suddenly saw
52:25Renard across the road.
52:26He was being escorted
52:28back toward the old mines,
52:29his left leg stiff
52:30from an infected injury
52:31that never healed properly.
52:33Ivita rushed forward.
52:34Renmack!
52:35Help me!
52:36Tell them I was yours!
52:38Renard stopped.
52:39For a moment,
52:41Ivita thought
52:41he might still soften.
52:42Then he looked at her
52:43the way one looks
52:44at a knife after it
52:45has already cut to deep.
52:47You were never mine.
52:49Ivita screamed.
52:50You said I was clean!
52:52Renard's eyes were empty.
52:54I was the dirty one.
52:55The guards pulled him away.
52:56Ivita collapsed
52:57on the wet stones,
52:58finally understanding
52:59that losing a man's favor
53:00was not punishment.
53:01Being shut out
53:02of every door
53:03in the mafia world
53:04is the cruelest punishment.
53:06The day Renard
53:07left New York,
53:08I did not go to the dock.
53:09I was told
53:10he stood on the ship
53:11for a long time,
53:12staring in the direction
53:13of the Viscani estate.
53:15I was told
53:15his left leg,
53:17infected from an old injury
53:18Matteo exposed,
53:19never fully healed.
53:21From then on,
53:21whenever it rained,
53:23the pain would be bad enough
53:24that he could barely
53:24stand straight.
53:25I was told
53:26that when the new
53:27Castillo Dome
53:27was sworn in,
53:29Renard was forced
53:29to sit in the last seat
53:30and watch his own
53:31underboss
53:32put on the snake crest ring.
53:33The most satisfying part
53:34was that he had to witness
53:35the ceremony himself.
53:37He once made
53:37every soldier
53:38watch me sit
53:39in the back seat.
53:40Now every capo
53:41watched him be driven
53:42from the main seat.
53:43He could not resist.
53:44Because the exile order
53:46carried his own signature,
53:47other people
53:47told me these things.
53:49I never asked.
53:50And I,
53:51on the second day
53:52after my coronation,
53:53went to the amusement park.
53:54I wore a pink dress,
53:56a pale pink,
53:57like a flower
53:57finally waking
53:58in an old spring.
54:00Aslan stood at the entrance
54:01and looked at me
54:01for a long time.
54:02It suits you.
54:05Someone once told me
54:07pink didn't suit me.
54:08Then he was blind.
54:11The carousel light spun.
54:13Fireworks loomed
54:14across the night sky.
54:15I bought a pink headband
54:16and put it on.
54:17It did not feel childish.
54:19It did not feel embarrassing.
54:21It turned out
54:21that the dreams
54:22I once believed
54:23had to be shared
54:23with one specific person
54:25could be fulfilled alone.
54:26And alone,
54:27they were free.
54:28My phone buzzed then.
54:29An unknown number
54:30sent a photo.
54:31In front of a small church
54:32at the old mines in Sicily,
54:34Renard sat in a wheelchair,
54:35holding a half-burned diary.
54:37I finally read all of it.
54:38I'm sorry.
54:40I read it,
54:40then deleted it.
54:41No reply,
54:42Aslan asked.
54:43Not going to look again.
54:46It doesn't matter.
54:49When the fireworks faded,
54:50the amusement park
54:51grew softer.
54:53Children ran past
54:53with glowing balloons.
54:55Couples took pictures
54:56under the lights.
54:57Somewhere,
54:58a carousel song played on.
54:59Bright and simple.
55:00For a moment,
55:01I stood there
55:02and let the night
55:03settle around me.
55:04No one was ordering me
55:05into the back seat.
55:06No one was asking me
55:07to fix another woman for him.
55:09No one was using my silence
55:10as proof that I could be hurt again.
55:12A man in the distance
55:13recognized me
55:14and lowered his head.
55:15Donna.
55:16I turned and saw
55:17my own shadow in the night.
55:18No longer thin.
55:19No longer waiting.
55:21No longer belonging
55:22to anyone's passenger seat,
55:23marriage bed,
55:24estate,
55:25or old spring.
55:26Aslan walked beside me,
55:28keeping half a step
55:28of distance like always.
55:30Where'd you now?
55:31I looked at the exit
55:32of the amusement park,
55:33then at the city beyond it.
55:35South Harbor was mine.
55:36The underground clinics
55:37were mine.
55:38The ledgers,
55:39the roots,
55:39the family seat.
55:40The name that had once
55:41been buried under
55:42Castio's shame,
55:43all of it had returned
55:43to my hand.
55:45Home.
55:46The estate?
55:47I smiled.
55:48No,
55:49wherever I choose to stand.
55:50The night wind lifted
55:51the hem of my pink dress.
55:53For years,
55:54I had mistaken waiting
55:54for loyalty,
55:55humiliation for patience,
55:57and crumbs for love.
55:58Now the old spring
55:59slept behind me.
56:00The new spring did not wait.
56:02I am Soraya Visconti.
56:03I once loved Adon.
56:05Then I became my own Donna.
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